{"id":4485,"date":"2013-07-13T01:56:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:56:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:56:20","slug":"06-22-april-1953-vol-05-questions-and-answers-volume-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/05-questions-and-answers-volume-05\/06-22-april-1953-vol-05-questions-and-answers-volume-05","title":{"rendered":"-06_22 April 1953.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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 <\/span>22 April 1953 <\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe following brief passage about sleep
\nand dreams, is part of a longer, incompletely recorded talk. <\/font> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

When one sleeps, how can one distinguish
\nthe nature of the visions? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

They do not
\nleave the same impression at all. <\/span><\/p>\n

In
\norder to know things well, one must educate oneself, develop the conscious being.
\nBut there are all kinds of different things, there are mental and vital
\nprojections exactly as in the cinema; then there are visions you may have if
\nyou are exteriorised in the mental and vital regions; the great difference is
\nthat these dreams are imposed upon you, you are taken in…1<\/sup> Here a
\nwhole passage is missing. Then there are countless dreams without any
\nconnection which have no interest. For your brain is like a recording
\ninstrument: something comes and strikes hundreds of cells, each thing must
\nstrike a small note. Things will strike the brain \u2013 convolutions a remembrance,
\nan impression, all kinds of tiny memories \u2013 it depends on your condition. But
\nyou have the control, ideas follow each other in accordance with a certain
\nlogic; there is also a mechanism which puts memories into movement through
\ncontagion, and the movement through contagion is made according to logic (what
\nyou call logic). But when you sleep, that faculty usually goes to sleep, so all
\nthose little cells are left to themselves and the connections – like the
\nconnections of electric wires – don\u2019t work any longer, things come the wrong
\nway round or in any direction at all. You must not look for a meaning. It was a
\ncontagion: because this one was vibrating, that other also vibrated, one
\nvibration gives rise to another. Your logic works no longer. And you have
\nfantastic dreams, absurd dreams. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n1<\/font><\/span><\/sup>Here a whole passage is missing<\/font> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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It is very
\ndifficult to put one\u2019s mind into repose. The majority of men get up very tired,
\nmore tired than when they went to sleep. One must learn how to quieten one\u2019s
\nmind, make it completely blank, and then when one wakes up, one feels
\nrefreshed. One must relax the whole mind in the pure white silence, then one
\nhas the least number of dreams.<\/span> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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